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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] packagegroup-core-tools-profile.bb: Remove oprofile.
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On 06/16/2015 08:08 AM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 1 June 2015 at 21:17, Philip Balister <philip@balister.org> wrote:
> 
>> Oprofile functions duplicate perf. Since perf is easier to use drop
>> oprofile
>> from the core-tools-profile package.
>>
>> Also, the oprofile-ui package opens a port on the device. removing this
>> package reduces a possible security issue for devices with profiling tools.
>>
> 
> I filed this in the "think about" box when you submitted it, but then
> failed to think.  My concern was "oprofile is the profiling tool we support
> with oprofileui on the host" but that point is fairly moot right now as
> oprofileui doesn't work anymore... (#7054).
> 
> When that's fixed, we can re-add the tooling as appropriate.

My gut feeling is people are moving to perf, which is also part of
tools-profile.

Philip

> 
> Ross
>